Re: Kernel recompiling

James D. Freels (fea@ornl.gov)
Fri, 20 Mar 1998 13:02:23 -0500 (EST)

I have done this and it works fine for 2.0.33 kernel on Alpha. Do you
need to apply similar patches to compile the latest development kernel
(currently 2.1.90)? If not, will a

make config;make dep; make clean; make boot

do the trick for 2.1.90?

>On Fri, Mar 20, 1998 at 06:51:25AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a recipe to (successfully) compile 2.0.32?
>
>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.0/linux-2.0.33.tar.gz
>ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/Kernels/alpha-patches-2.0.32-0.1.gz
>
>Will definitely get you a kernel that works. My guess with
>
>> /usr/asi/src/linux/include/linux/time.h:33: linux/timespecbits.h: \
>> No such file or directory
>
>is that you picked up some bad patches somewhere. Do use .33
>rather than .32 because of known bugs in .32.

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